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Noob advice - hot-swapping cards on Clip Zip

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fduniho:

--- Quote from: harrawk on May 04, 2012, 06:58:00 AM ---My question is do you think it's better to just keep collecting and filling 32GB cards with music to hot-swap, or to buy another Clip Zip or Clip+ so I don't have to keep rebuilding my database every time I put in a different memory card?

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I have a Clip Zip too, and I have four cards for it right now. I never considered getting an extra player, because that's just much more expensive than buying memory. Here's what I like about how the database works in Rockbox. It will not update the database unless I tell it to. One option, when putting in a new card, is to use the file browser for the first album, and have it rebuild the database while you're already listening to music. I also like that the database and playlists are independent of each other. Rockbox keeps playlists for music even when the card it is on is not inserted, and it can play songs in the playlist even when they are not in the database. For the card with my exercise music on it, I use a randomized playlist. I just put in the right card, go to the playlist, and skip the database entirely. It's a long playlist, and I'm just keeping track of where I left off in it. If I put in the card I was using previously, the database for that card is still there, because I didn't change it.

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